FAU wins conference baseball tournament, advances to NCAA Tournament

It's tournament time for the Florida Atlantic University baseball team.

After its 16-8 win over Louisiana-Lafayette in the Sun Belt Conference Championship game over the weekend, the Owls are headed to the NCAA Tournament.

In its final year of competition in the Sun Belt Conference, the tournament championship was the school's first, and it gave the Owls an automatic bid to the Big Dance. FAU will begin playing in Conference USA next year.

At a watch party at the Duffy's restaurant near the FAU campus in Boca Raton on Monday, the team learned it they will play Towson University in the Chapel Hill, N.C., region in the opening round, most likely on Friday.

"This is the perfect way to leave the Sun Belt Conference, on top," FAU head coach John McCormack said. FAU is also in the same region as the tournament's overall top seed, the University of North Carolina.

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